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Harry Hall (c. 1929 – 28 October 2007) was a British cycling mechanic and cycle shop owner. [1] [2] [3] Hall was born in Manchester, England in 1928 or 1929. An enthusiastic cyclist, in 1955 Hall gave up his job as a printer to establish Harry Hall Cycles. His first shop was at 400 Hyde Road, West Gorton which he opened in 1956 in a small ...
Evans Cycles Limited [1] is a British cycle retailer. It was opened in central London by a London cyclist, Frederick Evans, who won an award from Britain's largest cycling club for the best cycling invention of 1925. He left his shop to be run by his manager and joined the Royal Air Force when war broke out in 1939.
Frank Bowden, a recent convert to cycling who on medical advice had toured extensively on a tricycle, first saw a Raleigh bicycle in a shop window in Queen Victoria Street, London, about the time that William Ellis's investment in the cycle workshop was beginning to take effect. [5] Bowden described how this led to him visiting the Raleigh works:
Maurice Burton (born 25 October 1955) [2] [3] is an English cycle shop owner and former racing cyclist from Catford, London. Born in London to an English mother and a Jamaican father, Maurice Burton was the first black British champion in cycling. His first taste of success came when he won the Junior Sprint national title in 1973.
Holdsworth became a national name in British cycling through both its catalogue, "Aids to Happy Cycling", later renamed "Bike Rider's Aids", and through its professional team. In 1953 Holdsworth had appointed a former sailor, Roy Thame, who had worked at a cycle shop in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, where he lived.
Brixton Cycles is a workers co-operative bike shop in Brixton in the London borough of Lambeth, United Kingdom.It was established in 1983. Its formation was part of an increasing trend in the 1970s and 1980s of a new cycling shops co-op movement across the United Kingdom. [1]